Sticky Notes

Ynet  reports now that Reuters press truck was not hit by a missle.

"Representatives of two armored vehicle manufacturers cast doubt on claims by Reuters that its armored vehicle had been struck by an Israeli air strike in Gaza."

"But experts from Inkas Armored Vehicle Manufacturing and First Defense International Group, both armored vehicle manufacturers, told the Confederate Yankee blog that photographs of the damaged jeep were not consistent with the Reuters claim."

I'm late, but there it is. 

This says it all.
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(Photo: AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)

Remember the reports about the convoy of radioactive materials, on the way to Iran,  that were stopped by the Bulgarians in July.? Now Janes Defence postulates that perhaps they were meant for Hezbollah. 

"As the Bulgarian interception involved radiological rather than nuclear-weapons-related materials, it is possible that non-state actors were the intended beneficiaries. As Hizbullah is the main non-state group with access to an increasingly devastating range of Iranian-supplied weapons and is backed by an intransigent and extremist Iranian president willing to fight a proxy war against Israel, it cannot be ruled out that it would be a possible recipient of non-conventional weapons or the materials to fabricate them.

Broadcast & Cable has the CBS response to Miss Katie's recent diet. "CBS blames the "editorial staff" of a promotional magazine for doctoring a photo to dramatically slim Katie Couric down, but those editors are in fact the network’s PR staff.  A CBS spokesman says only that "the editorial staff of Watch magazine retouched the photo without the knowledge of Katie Couric or CBS news management" and would not elaborate further.

Through a spokesman, Couric says that she prefers the original photo "because there's more of me to love." 

First published at TV Newser and wildly covered under FAUX KATIE here on Sticky Notes, then followed by Hot Air, Townhall, RightWinged, ans so many more.

 Well we can end SOME speculation on was a supernot looks like. Here ya go!

Supernote shown below:  HA! Look at that signature - John Snow. Secretary 2003-2006. Definitely the new series.

Supernote is lower bill

The Daily NK reports  "In order to confirm whether or not recently North Korean counterfeit dollar bills are circulating, DailyNK purchased a super-note from a governmental trader in North Korea again following last January. “The counterfeit dollar bills made in 2001 begin with the serial number ‘C’, and most elaborate ones made in 2003 begin with ‘D’. The counterfeit dollar bills beginning with ‘D’ is most circulating super-notes”. Subsequently, he said that, “Because the U.S plans to issue new 100 dollar bills, the great quantity of the counterfeit dollar bills is very likely to be distributed and circulated”.

Apparently a supernote costs $70 to purchase.  Of interest - in N Korea, these supernotes are called "income currency". The N Korean won (dollar) is so low in value and it takes so many to haul around, merchants have taken to using the counterfeit money because they know the value and it takes fewer to make a transaction.

Blue Crab Boulevard and Anchoress have posts about the NYT's removal of a story regarding the recent airplane bombing plots in Britain.  The question arises about freedoms and censorship and legalities. Britain apparently prohibits publishing crime details in the press before a trial.  So the Times blocked the story to British readers.

Now I respect the fact that the NYT doesn't want to jeopardize the case in Britain , and heaven knows we want the British case to hold up in their courts.

HOWEVER, the NYT has NO COMPUNCTION about jeopardizing our national security programs when they print stories. The 'public's right to know' and all that. We can have SECRET programs designed to catch terrorists, but hey, the Times does not afford our nation the same honor they are willing to give to Britain.

So that says to me their allegiance in NOT with America but one more example of appeasement of the left. Everyone but America . International law above our Constitutional law.

It's the lack of consistency. It's yielding to another country's laws, but not our own.

I could go on. But I'll let you take it from here.

 At TV Newser - Fauxtography is not just for overseas pix. Apparently we are pretty good at it here in the states.

Newser notes that the picture on the left was first released by CBS earlier in the year. The one on the right is in the September issue of  CBS-owned magazine WATCH.  What a waist.

EXCUSE ME??!!!

Britt Hume just reported that the special prosecutor knew the source BEFORE the investigation started. And we spent how much money? And indicted Libby?? - all this revealed in HUBRIS by David Corn and Michael Isikoff.

 I'm going to be sick.

Korean Newspaper today: "A Californian man indicted on charges of smuggling counterfeit dollars into the U.S. testified at his trial that the high-quality counterfeit US$100 bills or “supernotes” were manufactured in North Korea, the National Intelligence Service said Monday. The NIS reported to the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee that the man admitted conspiracy to smuggle the supernotes and admitted where the phony bills were made. A joint taskforce of the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department and the Treasury conducted secret investigations and rounded up 59 suspects around the U.S. on charges of smuggling counterfeit dollars and cigarettes in August last year. The taskforce worked under the code name “Smoking Dragon” and “Royal Charm” between 1999 and 2005. It alleges suspects attempted to smuggle millions worth of forged dollars and some $40 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes. (I wrote about this yesterday.)

Now the thing we have to think through – if this counterfeit money is smuggled out of N. Korea, then it can end up right in the hands of  Hezbollah.  If it’s banked through all the foreign banks (see yesterday's post), then one of two things happen. One – it ends up everywhere around the world as part of general dissemination. Two, it taken by these banks with full knowledge that it’s counterfeit and then laundered to specific recipients.  Thoughts?